Nike to make 1,500 of Marty McFly’s Air Mag sneakers

The Internet’s buzzing with news that Nike is releasing the Nike Air Mag sneakers that lace themselves that Marty McFly wore in Back to the Future II.

Nike said Thursday that it has created a limited-edition shoe based on the model audiences saw in the 1989 movie. Sneaker and movie fans have urged the company for years to create the shoe.

Nike will release 1,500 pairs of the 2011 Nike Mag sneaker. It will auction them on eBay and donate proceeds to the Michael J. Fox Foundation. Fox famously played Marty McFly in the “Back to the Future” time-travel trilogy, where he wore the glowing sneakers that laced themselves during a visit to the year 2015.

“Nike Kicks” blogger Matt Halfhill said he was called by Nike at midnight Wednesday and flown to Los Angeles. There he found a box that contained a message from Dr. Emmett Brown (“If my calculations are correct, over the next 24 hours you are about to see some serious [bleep]!”) and metal shield glasses. There was also a goodie-bag of “Back to the Future” products.

Here’s something that appears to be a teaser ad released on YouTube.com by “DocEmmettBrown88.”:

Back to the Future executive producer Frank Marshall hinted at the announcement on Twitter on Wednesday, writing, “Something big is coming soon. Can’t say anything yet. No one should know too much about their own destiny. #BTTF”